Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845H

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 7 8845H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8845H performs better than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8845H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8845H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8845H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.